Although rainy season is not supposed to begin until April, the random interactions of air molecules forgot to check the calendar. It has rained almost every day for the past week, and when it rains it pours.  I blame global climate change.

I thought the rain would be a good thing because it cools the place down. It had been way too hot and muggy. I'm often drenched in sweat (luckily my own) by the time I walk to school in the morning. So much moisture. Overall the rain is a good thing, but it has a wild and unexpected (at least by me) consequence: flying insects.

There could be several things about my house that are particularly conducive to flying insect breeding, but my own speculations about insect mating habits are unimportant and probably wrong. Here's what I know: the exterior of my house is covered in insects at night.

I don't mean literally covered. I mean that it is impossible to go outside of my house at night without flattening a few bugs with each step. I mean that when I go outside at night I am attacked from all sides and angles. I mean that an hour later I am still finding bugs in my hair.

Tonight I killed about 15 grasshoppers (or are they crickets?) in my house in 2 minutes. Really. At least they're easy to kill and at least only two made it inside my room. It's plague-like. In addition to the mutant grasshopping crickets, I also have flying ants. That's probably not the proper scientific classification, but that's exactly what they look like.

The upside of all this is that Eish is very busy. I don't know if he "likes" chasing bugs (he probably doesn't really like anything), but I enjoy watching him chase stuff. It's only been two nights of this, but if it continues to be this bad, I may have to get the outside of my house sprayed with something horribly poisonous…

Addendum #1: Solar powered Germans are still here. It was a two week conference for teachers who have no ability to purchase any of the solar powered lamps nor do they have any purchasing decision making powers. Brilliant.

Addendum #2: Ghana Central Region Zone II Inter-Senior Secondary School Athletics competitions were held last week. It was a two-day event, so no classes for those days. Eleven schools competed and my school finished seventh overall. There is one school in the zone that actually recruits athletes. They offer scholarships to particularly fast junior secondary students. They dominate this local competition. Winners then go to a regional competition and presumably that leads to some national championship. Other schools in the area are considering recruiting.

Addendum #3: Because of strong wind, a power line going from the grid to my town fell. It took about 2 days to fix. For whatever reason, the power has randomly gone off over the past few days. There are still scheduled 12-hour outages every five days.  

Addendum #4: After a month-long absence, running water is finally back in my house.

Addendum #5: Megillah reading on Saturday night at the home of an Israeli couple in Accra. I'm dressing up as a white person.

¶ 3:00 PM